HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS CALL FOR FOCUSING ATTENTION ON MOST VULNERABLE

TSUNAMI SURVIVORS, FULL PARTICIPATION

 

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 11 January (UN Information Service) -- The following statement was issued today by 26 mandate-holders of special procedures of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights:

TRADE ‘MARGINALIZATION’, CULTURE’S ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT, FUTURE CHALLENGES

ADDRESSED, AS UN SMALL ISLAND CONFERENCE CONTINUES IN MAURITIUS

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

666^th Meeting (AM)

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION CONVENTION REMAINS CATALYST FOR CHANGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL’S

SPECIAL ADVISER ON GENDER ISSUES TELLS COMMITTEE

 

She Stresses Body’s Pivotal Role in Enhancing

Government’s Accountability at Opening of Thirty-Second Session

TSUNAMI UNDERSCORES UNCTAD’S WARNINGS ON ISLAND VULNERABILITY

 

(Reissued as received.)

UNODC Executive Director Visits UNICRI, Expresses Need

 

for Professionals to Fight Global Crime

 

(Reissued as received.)

The Secretary-General and his wife Nane arrived from Jakarta to Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Friday night, 7 January, and began his visit Saturday morning with a meeting with representatives of a dozen United Nations agencies, plus the Asian Development Bank, to review their coordinated efforts to deliver relief to the victims of the 26 December tsunami.

Statement by Secretary-General’s Spokesman On release

 

of initial analysis of oil for food programme

The following statement on the release of the internal audits and the Independent Inquiry Committee’s initial analysis of the “oil for food” programme was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH OF UN MILITARY OBSERVER IN LEBANON

Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS PALESTINIAN POLL A SIGNIFICANT STEP IN HISTORIC TRANSITION

Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

WELCOMING SUDAN PEACE AGREEMENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PARTIES TO SHOW

 

COMMITMENT, DETERMINATION, COURAGE IN IMPLEMENTING ACCORD OVER LONG TERM

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the signing ceremony for the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan, in Nairobi, yesterday, 9 January 2005, as delivered by Jan Pronk, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan: